Evaluation practices and impact: Overload?

Hanne Foss Hansen; Timo Aarrevaara; Lars Geschwind; Bjørn Stensaker

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2_8

Evaluation practices and impact: Overload?

Hanne Foss Hansen, Timo Aarrevaara, Lars Geschwind, Bjørn Stensaker

Faculty of Social Sciences

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Abstract

This chapter offers an analysis of evaluation practices in and around the universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The analysis builds on a conceptual framework focussing on a typology of evaluation models and combines these with an actor’s perspective. The analysis shows that similar evaluation ideas and models have been implemented across the countries, but also that when looking into evaluation practices, variations are considerable. Further, the chapter explores academics’ views on evaluation and evaluation impact. This part of the analysis reveals country differences and shows that evaluation criteria in policy- and managerial-driven evaluation schemes often do not match academic views on what constitutes and supports good performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education
Subtitle of host publication	A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries
Editors	Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages	235-266
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-11738-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-11737-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2_8
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2019
MoEC publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book

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Evaluation experiences
Evaluation impacts
Evaluation models
Evaluation practices

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Administrative science

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Foss Hansen, H., Aarrevaara, T., Geschwind, L., & Stensaker, B. (2019). Evaluation practices and impact: Overload? In R. Pinheiro, L. Geschwind, H. Foss Hansen, & K. Pulkkinen (Eds.), Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education: A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries (pp. 235-266). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2_8

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